CRIME: Black Legion

In Detroit one
evening last fortnight some 50 members of the Black Legion, wearing
cheap black & white robes and hoods, held a solemn conclave. Present
were two relatives of the wife of a 32-year-old WPA worker named
Charles Poole. They reported that Charles Poole was a wife-beater.
"Let's beat him up!" "Let's stripe him!" cried the Black Legionaries.
Some, more bloodthirsty, screamed: "Let's hang him!"

The Legion's "Colonel" Harvey Davis decided on hanging. Poole was lured
to the meeting on the pretext that he was needed for a sandlot baseball
team....